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Minutes for the Meeting of November 22, 1993 Lex. Knights of Columbus 177 Bedford Street :.l The Lexington Club 475 Bedford Street Lex. Veterans of Foreign wars 2 Hayes Lane Pac kaoe Stores: Berman' s Market Inc* 55 Mass. Avenue Lexington Liquor Mart, Inc. 58 Bedford Street Busa Bros. Liquor, Inc. 55 Bedford Street Vinebrook Bottle Shop 131 Mass. Avenue Not approved was a completed ABBC license renewal application from 1775 wine & Spirit Shop, 1707 -R Massachusetts Avenue, since none was received* RATIFY PHONE POLL ONE -DAY LIQUOR LICENSES Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to ratify the phone poll approving One Day Liquor Licenses for the Knights of Columbus on November 20, and 27, 1993. CONSENT AGENDA COMMITMENT Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to approve com- mitment of the following charges. Commitment of Water Charges - Nov. 1993 $72 (Cycle 9 bills) METROPOLITAN STATE HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT Mr. McSweeney brought the Board up to date on progress. He distributed a map of the reuse plan which was last discussed on OctobeOr 4. A breakdown of the roughly 350 -360 acres in the total parcel is as follows: the solid black section is the proposed MDC reservation of 220 + /- acres; the white /grey color along Trapelo Road is the proposed golf course; and the sketches of the buildings which are in two areas, one in Waltham which is the Gabler Center, and the rest of the buildings, which are mostly in Lexington. Mr. McSweeney reported that on October 5 a public meeting was held in Belmont to explain the reuse items to date to the three communities and to get comments and concerns from the public. Upwards of 150 citizens attended. The main thrust of meeting was that the chairmen of task force from each community went through and explained the process and the reuse document as per their community. In Lexing- ton's case the comments and concerns of the task force that had been meeting on a monthly basis were made an integral part of the reuse plan. Waltham seems to have more interest; of the 150 attendees, about 130 were from Waltham. A lot of questions asked on the reuse document were mainly about the golf range, any of the housing scenarios and the traffic. As a result of that meeting, the smaller group decided to form three fact finding groups, one to try to get answers to questions about the golf range, one for housing and one for traffic. Each community has two representatives on the golf group. Assistant Planner Joseph Marino was instrumental in the formation of the housing